Author(s): Claudia Perren (Editor)

theory and history | magazines / journals | Spector

Share

Understanding architectural holism from both a historical and a contemporary perspectiveIn 1953, a group of young architects met and proposed a radical shift away from functionalist housing as an architectural standard, instead offering the term "habitat" as a holistic view uniting housing, human beings and the environment. Bauhaus 12 focuses on this debate through postwar history.